What is the point of inventing?

[Commx]

As the title suggests, what is the point of inventing. After reading the first two pages of the New Inventions forum, I've come to the conclusion that ideas are roughly to be categorised as one of the following:

1)Some stupid/ridiculously overpowered/impossible/etc. idea that is almost certainly beaten down to where it came from.
2)Ideas that could actually be a good thing, but which are still beaten down.
3)Ideas that are good, and thought to be good, but which are comletely ignored. The last time something invented was put on a planet was almost 6 months ago.

Considering these points, what exactly is, the use of spending 4 credits to invent something?

[O-siris]

that's true i once invented the stardesotroyer many people liked the ship but never has the admin read that topic it's a pitty they aren't doing their job

[Weylyn]

I invented a ship some months ago, I brought it up three times and it was ignored three times. Bullshit ships get more attention than mine does :'(

I'll try again

Retribution missile:
http://forum.spacetrace.com/viewtopic.php?topic=3210&forum=26
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[T2]

I'm not sure where I OR admin stand on this issue. Even some inventions that admin thought would be a good idea and help them with server traffic eg: the TPC Probe has failed to materialize. I can only conclude that admin are very busy with other things in thier lives if something that would help thier server gear perform better is also ignored.
I certainly don't take it personally....but ...it is unfortunate that some of these new ships are left in limbo.
On the other side of the coin, there is a lot more ships to choose from now the pre-warps have become automated ship factories and quite a few improvments have been made to dress up the site and assist new players with fleet set-ups.
I think it's starting to pay off with all the new players I see around.

[lilkrnboi1018]

their have been probes and the explorer added, no new ships besides explorer, but probes have been added
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[Metody I The Evil]

What's the point of inventig you ask? In one word: "none"

I waited for my dear old sharpshooter for, well, since 21.02.2003. It was said "it almost made it" (<= quote ... by the,erm, "new ships to be put ingame commitee" ) It's been later moved IN possible new technologies. It had no comments, just votes for at least an year and 9 months. Yep, still no comment even from admin himself, though that someone had to move it to Possible Inventions... ugh.

Though as far as I know, it hasn't even been placed on a planet (well, unless such has happened during the last year, and,has not been advertised on the forum - unlikely).

Here's the true piece of history of a ship that... "almost made it"
http://www.spacetrace.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1195&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

BTW if anyone encounters it on a pre-warp... pls... contact me

The usage of the credit system for inventing ships in particular was completely useless. All that was needed to stop the *flood* of overpowerfull inventions...
Was as I proposed - Just change the f*king description for the "new invention". It suggests (to a newbie) that inventing a ship actually means, you get access to it. So, why should we be surprised that newbies were inventing over-powered ships by the dosens?! They expect them to appear within what, a week at most? - in JUST THEIR production screen for f*ck's sake!